Moderating the bullying perpetration–delinquency relationship with parental support and knowledge
A prospective analysis of middle school students
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11107087 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn D Walters (0000-0002-7219-1542, Department of Criminal Justice Kutztown University Kutztown Pennsylvania, corresponding author), Jon Kremser (Department of Criminal Justice Kutztown University Kutztown Pennsylvania), Lindsey Runell (0000-0002-7805-4880, Department of Criminal Justice Kutztown University Kutztown Pennsylvania) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 244-253 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Aggressive Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0096-140X • E-ISSN: 1098-2337 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ab.21885 |
| PMID | 32115729 |
| OpenAlex | W3010272228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 45 |
The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether parental support and knowledge moderate the relationship between bullying perpetration and delinquency. A sample of 305 middle school students (141 boys, 164 girls; 10–12 years of age) served as participants in this study. The research hypothesis predicted that parental support and knowledge would moderate the prospective bullying–delinquency relationship. Testing this hypothesis with least squares regression parametric coefficients and percentile bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals, parental support received full support and parental knowledge no support as factors potentially capable of reducing risk for future delinquency by interacting with prior bullying perpetration. Whereas parental support decreased the odds of high bullying boys engaging in future delinquency—an outcome consistent with the view that parenting can serve a protective function against future offending by neutralizing the risk effect of bullying—parental knowledge failed to reduce future delinquency in children who bullied, although it did have a direct ameliorative effect on future delinquency. The protective effect was strongest when parental support was high and parental knowledge low, whereas the risk effect was strongest when parental support was low and parental knowledge was medium to high. These results suggest that protective and risk effects are limited to certain combinations of protective and risk factors
Developmental psychology · Injury prevention · Juvenile delinquency · Logistic regression · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Odds · Poison control · Suicide prevention · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support
Peer Influence in Children and Adolescents
Effectiveness of school-based programs to reduce bullying
The predictive efficiency of school bullying versus later offending
Direct Protective and Buffering Protective Factors in the Development of Youth Violence
The Relationship Between Parenting and Delinquency
The effectiveness of school-based bullying prevention programs
Predictors of bullying and victimization in childhood and adolescence
Parental Monitoring
Bullying Behaviors Among US Youth
Constructing validity
Testing Mediational Models With Longitudinal Data
The Effects of Nonnormal Distributions on Confidence Intervals Around the Standardized Mean Difference
Are There Multiple Paths to Delinquency
Violence and Serious Theft
A General Theory of Crime
Parental Management and Self-Control
The role of factor analysis in the development and evaluation of personality scales
Bullies and delinquents
Parenting and Peer Relationships
Bullying Perpetration and Subsequent Delinquency
Effectiveness of anti-bullying school programs
Parent and Peer Pathways to Adolescent Delinquency
Risk, promotive, and protective factors in youth offending
What parents know, how they know it, and several forms of adolescent adjustment
Dynamic Models for Dynamic Theories
General and relationship-based perceptions of social support
Social support as an organizing concept for criminology
Adolescents at Risk of Delinquency. The Role of Parental Control, Trust, and Disclosure
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |